Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NE SIS or TaETSYO STATES TOLD
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GEORGIA
Covington is to have paid ball clu
this season.
Griffin's chair factory Is a big success
Fifty hands are employed.
There is said 10 he one Gentleman il
Athens who owns $500 coo worth OF stoc
IN the Georgia railroad.
The match factory at Gainesville j
now working full time and turning on
matches ny the million.
A Lexington gentleman has the frs
copy OF the New York sun, published il
1888. 1t is a small sheet OF five columns
and well UP to he times.
The fall sowing of oats in Hall county
was badly killed out by tue late freeze. The
wheat, though not looking we'll at pres
ant, may make a faic crop if the season
should be favorable.
AT Athens TAYLOR Bros fine new corn
mill is nearly completed they are put.
ting in Westiaghouse automatic engine
bj-horse power. The mill will have a ca
pacity OF 1000 bushels day.
DIR. W. \. Carlton, Of Athens, made
clear profit of over l25 per cent. on his
hogs, after deducting tue cost OF their
food and first value. II was also offered
100 per cent. prott0 on his herd Of Jerseys.
The Lexington Echo is always GOOD
paper, but If any Of the good people Of
O2lethQrpe county tailed to read ii this
week they missed the bost collection Of
local news printed by any weekly in
Georgia in many day.
A gentleman living near Wintervile
owns Texas pony that sports we'll de-
Veioped mOustacAe-1 heavy one very
much resembling one on a human face.
II is on the horse, upper lip and gives
MIN quite strange appearance.
The first quarterly meeting for the Lex
(ngton circuit Tor the wear lSS1 will be
held at the Lexington Church Feb. 10
and 20. The Rev. ). p. Richardson, p.
T., viii be present and preach Ooth days.
The Official members Of The circuit are
expected to be present
Athens Banner-W atchman: Col. Tim
Barnard is bitterly opposed to the inter-
state commerce bill, and says it will ruin
every city in Georgia by building UP the
smail towns and classifying the wholesale
business. Athens is generally opposed
10 the bill.
c. f. Daniel, Of Athens, has resigned
MS position on the engineering OF the G..
Z. and \. survey, after a weeks work
MIR. Daniel was only paid $l5 per month
and expenses, and he struck for an adj
vance. He can make S. per day as Coun-
ty Surveyor.
of pair of buckhorns that contain ten
prongs. The deer was killed in 1916. L
was killed by John Clarke, the father of
our friend land worthy fellow-citiZen, j.
G. n. +. Clarke. j. 6. y. f. Clarke says
that he has killed himself 425 deer TO
date.
During a storm at Athens a day or two
ago lightning struck a large oak tree in
X. L. Bloomhed's yard short distance
from his house. The tree was literally
shivered into toOthpicks, while the shock
shattered nearly every pane of glass in
-She diningroom and knocked the top
from chimney.
Phil Harris, a colored boy from the
Wolfskin district, was taken to Lexing-
ton on last Tuesday and lodged III iail 10
await the action of the Superior Court in
April. Last Sunday week he attempted
20 commit an outrage on Julia NJ artin, a
little l0.year-old negro girl living on
FRANK Eillotps plantation,
There has probably been more mules
Uaken 10 Americas this season than for
many years past, and, Notwithstanding
the cry of dull times, the sales are brisk
ana prices satisfactory to the dealers.
Already seventeen carloads, or $50 head.
nave been shipped there and sold, and
more arrive nearly every day.
one oil the butchers a the market house
at Athens DISCHARGED his bookkeeper.
Inc bookkeeper claims that his boss
wouldn't settle with him, ana so he re-
FUSED to give up the books. The butcher
j. In bad hX,i Tor he cannot collect cent
from his months business, as the ac-
counts are not made out and he don't
Know who owes him.
Inc demand for houses IN Winreryllle
IS so great that places rent for 10 and 20
per cent. OF original cost. The populn.
tlon has nearly doubled lately. Building
iOts are IN treat demand, but the people
sell on readily to encourage settlers and
secure improvement. Two or three plan
tatlons VIII be cut up and sold at admin
isratOr's sale next fall.
w. Il. Wilder, living near Bvronville.
committed suicide last Friday morning
by taking halt bottle of morphine con
tanning about % grains. He was evident
~ under tue influence OF alcohol when he
committed the terrible crime He was in
stupor at the time, and expressed him.
eeif us being greatly in trouble. He
leaves vile and four children.
>. 1. Arnold captured huge owl on
his plantation above Crawford the other
day. He managed To shoot out hotn ewes
Of the bird and then easily eau. ht him.
By some means the owl got away from
MIR. Arnold, ami, flying against a tree
t'"Sleu out MS OINinS. III W as one of the
largest owls ever killed in that county.
and measured something over feet from
tip TO tip.
The last grand jury assessed the prop.
erty OF Hall county over $50 900 above
what 1t was given in Tor. The tax on
this amount would have paid the State
DNer SZ5O and the county about $500. The
largest raise was in the Gainesville dis.
trict. $4,000, and the next largest was
the Glade, $l2625, while the smallest was
Bark Camp, only one man being raised.
and he only $40.
Mrs. william Davis, who lives about
FOUR miles from Swainsboro, a few DAYS
ago was assisting her husband in burn
tng some trash in the field, when her
clothing caught on fire and burned nearly
OIL before the fire was extinguished.
Prom her waist down she is burned into
crisp. Her husband was very badly
burned IN eNtinRuishing the fire. but not
dangerously. ihe doctor has but little
aope Of the unfortunate woman's re-
eoyery.
The hye-roOm dwelling on the plauta.
ton OF }. W, Bailey, few miles east OF
Americas, was DESTROYED with all its
contents wednesday night. The house
was occupied by AIR. Turrentine. VINO.
with his family, barely escaped from the
burning building, saving none Of their
clothing or household effects. The cause
Df the lire Is unknown, but Is supposed to